Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 236*
A rare Meissen bust of the Madonna, circa 1925
14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £6,875 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A rare Meissen bust of the Madonna, circa 1925
Modelled by Professor Richard Langer as a half-length bust of a young woman with he right hand raised, her head slightly tilted, wrapped in a large robe, 66cm high, crossed swords mark and dot in blue to base, the back with impressed crossed swords mark and dot and 'weiß',incised model number A.1125, impressed 23 and 38
Footnotes
The sculptor Richard Langer was introduced to the Meissen manufactory by Paul Scheurich as early as 1913, though the first models were only purchased from him in 1919. The manufactory director, Max Adolf Pfeiffer, wrote to the sculptor in December 1924, thanking him for photographs of a new model for which he expressed his great enthusiasm. That model - the Madonna - was produced in porcelain the following year, and Pfeiffer even had one in his office, writing to Langer that this "completely wonderful piece gives me pleasure every day." See C.Marusch-Krohn, Meissener Porzellan 1918-1933 Die Pfeifferzeit, pp.121ff., and ill.104, for another example of the model in the Grassi-Museum, Leipzig. Two other examples of this rare model were sold at Sotheby's, Fine British and European Ceramics & Glass, London, 2nd June 2005, lot 77 and 5 June 2007, lot 97.